Criteria for Evaluation of Watershed Models

✍ Scribed by ASCE Task Committee on Definition of Criteria for Evaluation of Watershed Models of the Watershed Management Committee, Irrigation and Drainage Division

• Book ID: 120629062
• Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 791 KB
• Volume: 119
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0733-9437
• DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9437(1993)119:3(429)

✦ Synopsis

This report addresses the problem practicing engineers face as they try to evaluate the usefulness of watershed models for solving engineering problems. The report addresses the need for more complete parameter descriptions, unrealistic data needs, documentation, testing, and the lack of uniform criteria for evaluating a model's performance. The report makes recommendations for using some basic statistical measures to describe the performance of the models.